I scratched my head for awhile when switching from promises to await/async. Hopefully this post helps you not need to scratch yours! 😀 Async/await is the same as using promises. It’s just syntactical sugar to make it look synchronous. The javascript engine sees the “await”…

I do frequently find that Spring documentation reads more like a novel than it does technical documentation. I find you can sometimes take many minutes, or even hours, just wading through stuff to find out how to do something that should have taken 5-10 minutes.…

I was having trouble today getting Linux to see my new partition space that I added in vSphere without rebooting the host. The new disk space was made visible by re-scanning the SCSI bus (below) and then the new partition was made visible by using…

I’ve been looking for a really good command for making a textual graph of my repo, showing the various branches, where they come from, etc. The reason I like this one is that it’s not only a graph, but it shows the branch names like…

I’ve had complex backup solutions in the past, which I wrote myself with rsync and bash. I’ve recently got sick and tired of the issues that come up now and then with them, so I decided to keep it extremely simple. So, I decided to…

I was recently asked the question about the conditions under which I would choose SOAP vs REST for writing a Web Service. I was thoroughly intrigued by the question, because I was curious in which way the discussion would go, as that would tell me a…

I needed a way to verify that the OpenLDAP server had the correct hash recorded. That is, a SSHA Hash Generator that I could run off the command line was in order. After fiddling through it, I thought it would be worth documenting in a…

After a lot of effort trying to figure out how to get some of my email into Thunderbird, from simple email files, I finally figured it out. I couldn’t do some of the other suggestions, as I have a lot of mail. Hopefully this saves…